Self, Mary JoWilkins, Amber Nicole2025-01-222025-01-222024-07https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14446/345837This naturalistic inquiry takes a deep dive into the experiences of elementary classroom teachers who have experienced feelings of burnout in their career and persevered, choosing to stay in the classroom, overcoming those feelings. Using Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs as a theoretical lens, the researcher studied the teachers in their school setting.application/pdfCopyright is held by the author who has granted the Oklahoma State University Library the non-exclusive right to share this material in its institutional repository. Contact Digital Library Services at lib-dls@okstate.edu or 405-744-9161 for the permission policy on the use, reproduction or distribution of this material.Dissertationburnoutleadershipmaslowretentionself-efficacyteacher